{"id":4504,"date":"2022-12-16T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2022-12-16T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T07:15:07","slug":"podrska-profesorki-dragani-vasiljevic-tomic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/support-of-professor-dragani-vasiljevic-tomic\/","title":{"rendered":"Support from Professor Dragana Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The network of academic solidarity and engagement in the new procedure for the selection of one full professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade sends public support to colleague Dragana Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107, associate professor of this faculty. This is the second time in the last two years that the Teaching Scientific Council of the Faculty of Architecture (NNVAF) prevents colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 from reaching the highest academic title. However, unlike the previous (non)election, when her job was not threatened, this time the consequence of the unsuccessful promotion for her colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 may be the loss of her job at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade.<\/p>

Professor Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 has been employed at the Faculty of Architecture for 28 years, of which she spent 14 years as an associate professor, and despite the fact that she met the requirements for selection as a full professor during the previous competition, announced in 2020, neither then nor now, she was not elected to the position she belongs to according to all her qualifications. That colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 is qualified to carry the title of full professor was assessed by the five-member international Commission for the selection of teachers to which the Teaching Scientific Council of the Faculty of Architecture (NNVAF) unanimously entrusted this mandate at the session held on 27.6.2022. The paper in which colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 is proposed for the position of full professor can be viewed at the following web address: http:\/\/www.arh.bg.ac.rs\/2022\/09\/15\/izbor-u-zvanje-redovnog-profesora-dr-dragana-vasiljevic-tomic-dipl-inz-arh\/?pismo=lat<\/a><\/p>

Since three objections (two of which are anonymous) to the proposed Report of the Commission were received, after their analysis and a detailed response to them, the Commission concluded that all three objections are unfounded and that colleague Dragana Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 meets the conditions for election to the title of full professor which are prescribed by the regulations of the Faculty of Architecture and the University of Belgrade.<\/p>

Nevertheless, despite the positive report of the aforementioned Commission, NNVAF, at the session held on 17.10.2022, by secret ballot, without prior discussion and valid explanation, rejected the Commission's proposal to elect Professor Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 to the title of full professor. After the complaint of colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107, the university Ombudsman issues an advisory opinion (November 3, 2022) where it is pointed out that the explanation for the (non) selection of Professor Vasiljvi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 submitted by the Faculty of Architecture does not contain detailed reasons for not adopting the Commission's report, which is an obligation expressly mandated by the Rulebook on the method and procedures of acquiring the title and establishing the employment relationship of teachers of the University of Belgrade. After that, the dean of the Faculty of Architecture decides to repeat the procedure for the selection of one full professor. However, at the new NNVAF session, held on November 14, 2022, the Commission's report was rejected again, practically without discussion. In the new explanation of this decision, which was submitted to the University after all the deadlines stipulated by the Rulebook had been breached, there are still no detailed reasons for rejecting the Commission's proposal, but the focus of the negative decision is on the aforementioned three objections to the Commission's Report, which, to note once again, , the Commission unanimously rejected.<\/p>

In the meantime, on November 2, 2022, Professor Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 received a request from the Faculty of Architecture to respond to the report for unethical behavior in the written work submitted on October 20, 2022 (thus breaking the eight-day deadline within which, according to the Rules, a response from colleague Vasiljvi\u0107 should have been received Tomic). It should be noted here that the application to the Ethics Commission was submitted by the same person who also submitted one of the objections to the Commission's report proposing the election of Professor Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 to the title of full professor, which the Commission found to be unfounded. Shortly after the answer of colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107, the Faculty of Architecture gives the opportunity to the applicant to comment on the response of colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107, but not to Professor Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 to once again comment on the new allegations from the applicant's response. After that, in an unusually fast procedure, it is proposed to form an Expert Commission whose mandate would be to determine the accuracy of the allegations from the application to the Ethics Commission.<\/p>

It is important to note that the report for unethical behavior refers to the originality of the representative reference from 2014, which Professor Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 used without any objections for her advancement in two election cycles in the past eight years. Therefore, it is very unusual that after so many years, at the very time when her promotion to the title of full professor was prevented, proceedings are initiated before the Faculty's Ethics Committee for a reference that has not been contested so far and which is in no way decisive for the selection of colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107.<\/p>

At the time of writing this reaction, the Expert Commission has not yet been formed and is waiting for the statement of the Council of Scientific Fields of Construction and Urban Sciences on the second appeal of colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 on the new decision on non-election to the title of full professor. We are still waiting for a new reaction from the Ombudsperson, since a new complaint was also submitted to him regarding the new explanation for the unsuccessful election of colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107. In the meantime, 14.12.2022. the Protector of Citizens also came forward, requesting relevant information from the Faculty of Architecture based on the complaint of the injured colleague.<\/p>

Bearing in mind all of the above, MASA states that the procedure for the selection of one full professor, for which Professor Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 is marked by numerous procedural failures (primarily the failure to explain the decision not to support the commission's report), non-transparent procedures and non-academic pressures on colleague Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 with a clear with the aim of obstructing not only her election to the title of full professor, but also her stay at the Faculty of Architecture.<\/p>

Bearing all this in mind, MASA appeals to all those responsible in the academic community, the Faculty of Architecture and competent university bodies not to allow another professor of the Faculty of Architecture to lose her job in the short term, after decades of work at this higher education institution.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mre\u017ea akademske solidarnosti i anga\u017eovanosti u novom postupku za izbor jednog redovnog profesora na Arhitektonskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu upu\u0107uje javnu podr\u0161ku koleginici Dragani Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107, vanrednoj profesorki ovog fakulteta. Ovo je drugi put u poslednje dve godine da Nastavno nau\u010dno ve\u0107e Arhitektonskog fakulteta (NNVAF) spre\u010dava koleginicu Vasiljevi\u0107 Tomi\u0107 da dosegne najvi\u0161e akademsko zvanje. Me\u0111utim, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4508,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}